Originally Posted by
Mart
What I meant is that anyone could pull any number out of the air, but in reality it means feck all; ie, perhaps his mate's car has more i.c.e/carries more weight, perhaps it runs on 18" alloys, perhaps it wasn't/isn't even running correctly, etc etc, ad nauseum.
RR's are a waste of time as there's far too many fudge factors involved, hence the only way to be sure is to put the engine on a dyno (£££), or run it on the strip, which some people can't be bothered with either.
And fwiw, I'd have personally thought most owners would want improved driveability, response, handling, braking, maybe even reliability, etc, rather than simply having 'bragging rights' power figures to talk about down the pub, which, as I mentioned before, are pretty much meaningless in the grand scheme of real world things anyway.